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The sixth feature film from director Jon Garcia, Sex Weather. The morning after the premiere of his new film, sleepy-eyed Darrel (Al’Jaleel McGhee) wakes to find himself in bed with his friend and crew member Syndey (Amber Stonebraker). As they discuss the previous evening and the film’s tepid reviews, emotions give rise to reflection on the passionate and thoughtful relationship that they could have shared if either had taken the chance. Filmed almost entirely in a small studio bedroom, the actors give stand-out performances of tumultuous regret and hopeful futures—while trying not to step on a fake lava floor.

"Like Weekend, Garcia is honest about how human beings would be or should be in post-coitus situations, and maybe that’s all this film needs to be. It’s a slightly raw morning after that can be awkward in one moment and quite arousing in the next. It doesn’t have to aim any higher than being a sexy interlude on a rainy day because it accomplishes that.”

“Movie Review - Sex Weather” by Marlon Wallace.

BATTLE ROYALE WITH CHEESE - November 9, 2018

"There is sweetness behind this film, and also a kind of sadness....Garcia brilliantly portrays this sad truth, and does so in the simplest of ways.”

"The drama and story are good in its insightfulness about relationships, but nothing life-shattering or metaphysically profound. It’s just a good film with two outstanding performances about an unusual, yet authentic, love story."

“Sex Weather” by Alan Ng. 7/10 stars.

PORTLAND MERCURY

“You know exactly the type of weather Sex Weather refers to. They are the best Portland days—dreary, but not so freezing that you crank the heat, so your house is still a little cold, so you nest under the blankets with another warm body. It’s one of the best titles for a film I’ve ever heard, and the movie isn’t bad, either. Set and filmed in Portland, Sex Weather opens with two hungover, naked adults squinting at one another and trying to find their phones. Over the course of a single cloudy day spent in bed, Darrel (Al’Jaleel McGhee) and Sydney (Amber Stonebraker) play out a relationship’s worth of intimacy and affection and being total assholes the way you only can when you really love someone. You’d better be okay with those conversations, because this is 100 percent of the film’s content—which felt like way too much at first, but as I got to know the characters, I became a thirsty little fly on the wall, loving the drama and happy for the grey day that pushed these characters inside in the first place. Filmmakers in attendance.”